Next Shining Series Game Is Shining Blade?

Sega manages to come up with a new Shining title for Japan almost every year. Shining Hearts, a traditional RPG where players collected hearts, came out for PSP in 2010.

Perhaps, Shining Blade is the next game in the series? Sega filed a trademark for the potential title in Japan. Hmm… I wonder what genre this will be. Since a weapon is part of the title I’m going to guess action RPG.

So the rumor about Shining Blade was true. Maybe the rumor about Bayonetta 2 and the fact that it will come with a CGI movie is true too. If anything, I’m hoping the CGI movie isn’t just a compilation of cutscenes, like some of the releases on Japan.

godmars

WESTERN HD CONSOLE OWNERS AND JRPG LOVERS UNITE!!

PS3 and Xbox 360 fanboys set aside your differences! Tell MS and Sony you want more than Uncharted 3 and Gears of War 3!

We want Xilla!
We want Lost Odyssey 2!
We want Legend of Dragoon 2!

WE WANT THE SHINING SERIES!!

Tell MS and Sony and Sega will – hopefully – get the message.

Ryos

Uh, the problem isn’t Sony and Microsoft, the problem is Sega isn’t releasing the series here because…well, Sega’d rather put out Sonic game #315357.

godmars

That’s why instead of making an online petition everytime there’s one game we want, there should just be one petition, one statement, with at least a million signatures w/gamer tags that say the undersigned want to see more support in the JRPG genera. Not 100k, but literal millions.

Of course given what the internet actually is such will never happen. If it does game companies likely still wont listen – especially if sales fail to live up to expectations – but then it could at least be said that it happened.

I would like to get into the #Shining series, but a lot of fans are winding up singing “I Don’t Want to Wait” by Paula Cole, since they’ve been waiting for a new Shining game for at least 2 gaming generations already.

EusisLandale

Not really sure how it’s been two generations of waiting. More like just a few games of waiting, and realizing that after Sega got their act together on the games they also felt like just not sharing that with ALL of their fans, only the ones in japan or importers.

solbalmung

I hope that this one will be a tactical RPG like the Force series, the ones released in the Sega Saturn were such master pieces….

I would like to see a strategy game revival for the Shining Series. If they wanna incorporate action, they should rip off Archon and have real-time battles every time a square or hex is contested. Because their last round of Action-RPGs were pretty monotonous and forgettable (Shining Force EXA for PS2 and whatnot).

I hope it still comes out for HD consoles though. Maybe collaborate with Obsidian? Their Dungeon Siege III tech would look great, especially if it had character designs from the Japanese artists over at Sega. A game like that would look better than Shining Cross (which I’m still pissed never got ported to PS3 and XB360).